The Jicarilla Apache Nation’s reservation covers a 900,000-acre area in New Mexico. See Brief for Petitioner, United States at 2. By statute, the Department of the Interior oversees the development of the reservation’s timber, gravel, oil and gas...
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The Navajo reservation is the largest Indian reservation in the United States. See Navajo Nation v. United States ("Navajo VI"), 501 F.3d 1327, 1330 (Fed. Cir. 2007). The Navajo Nation's ("the Nation's") reservation lands contain a vast...
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Oral argument: Nov. 1, 2010
Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Mar. 16, 2009)
28 U.S.C. § 1500, INDIAN LAND TRUST, INDIAN TUCKER ACT, SOVEREIGN IMMUNITYTohono O’odham...